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Barry Desmond's habit of telling it like he saw it kept him close to controversy during 30 years in politics from the 1960s to the 1990s, repeatedly challenging the once high and mighty, from beef barons to bishops and trade unionists to Taoisigh.Throughout, he remained his own man, as often at loggerheads with some within his own party as with his opponents. From a young upstart in the Labour Party he went on to become a central participant in the party's fortunes in and out of government and a reforming Minister for Health.From opposing his own party's stand on EU membership in the 1970s, he took on the Catholic Church over contraception in the 1980s and played a crucial back-room role in Labour's success in the 1990s.In Finally and In Conclusion he looks back on those battles and frankly assesses the politics and the politicians of his era. And, as always, he tells it like he saw it.
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